An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States

By: Charles A. Beard

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Paperback | 5 September 1986 | Edition Number 1

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In this new printing of a major classic in American historiography, Louis Filler provides a sense of the person behind the book, the background that enabled Beard to move well beyond the shibboleths of the second decade of the twentieth century. While the controversies over Beard's book have quieted, the issues which it raised have hardly abated. Indeed, one can say that just about every major work in the politics and economics of the American nation must contend with Beard's classic work. Beard's work rests on an examination of primary documents: land and slave owners, geographic distribution of money, ownership of public securities, the specific condition of those who were disenfranchised as well as those who were in charge of the nascent American economy.

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"Here again is the original constitutional skeptic to remind Americans that our republic's authors had not only intellects but interests. Charles Beard set out to jolt his contemporaries out of their pious admiration of the constitution's framers. His economic interpretation remains a lively, surprisingly humorous and sharp-witted analysis of the nation's beginnings. Reading it today, the book aims a keen and pointed thrust at the originalism of our own age."

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Historical Interpretation in the United States	p. 1
A Survey of Economic Interests in 1787	p. 19
The Movement for the Constitution	p. 52
Property Safeguards in the Election of Delegates	p. 64
The Economic Interests of the Members of the Convention	p. 73
The Constitution as an Economic Document	p. 152
The Political Doctrines of the Members of the Convention	p. 189
The Process of Ratification	p. 217
The Popular Vote on the Constitution	p. 239
The Economics of the Vote on the Constitution	p. 253
The Economic Conflict over Ratification as viewed by Contemporaries	p. 292
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